Janet Frame 1924 - 2004

About Janet Frame

Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished writer, died of leukemia January 29, 2004, at a hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was 79.

In 2003, along with Michael King and Hone Tuwhare, she was honoured as one of the "giant kauri" of New Zealand literature in the inaugural Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement.

Biographies & Criticism

• Biographical notes from the New Zealand Book Council
• Gale Literature Resource Centre
• Arts Foundation of New Zealand
• University of Auckland NZ Literature file

Obituaries & Tributes

• The Gift of Language, C. K. Stead,
  NZ Listener, February 7-13, 2004, Vol 192, No 3326

Interviews and documentaries

• Janet Frame interviewed by Elizabeth Alley. 28 May 1983, on Concert Programme, Radio NZ.
• Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame - A documentary based around a substantial interview with Frame herself, filmed in 1975 with Michael Noonan as interviewer. From NZ On Screen.

Works by Janet Frame

Novels

• Owls Do Cry 1957
• Faces in the Water 1961
• The Edge of the Alphabet 1962
• Scented Gardens for the Blind 1963
• The Adaptable Man 1965
• A State of Siege 1966
• The Rainbirds 1968 published as Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room 1969
• Intensive Care 1970
• Daughter Buffalo 1972
• Living in the Maniototo 1979
• The Carpathians 1988

Autobiography

• To the Is-Land: An Autobiography 1983
• An Angel at My Table: An Autobiography 1984
• The Envoy from Mirror City: An Autobiography 1985
• An Autobiography, Women's Press, Volume 1: To the Is-Land, Volume 2: An Angel at My Table, Volume 3: The Envoy from Mirror City 1987

Short Stories and other writings

• The Lagoon: Stories 1951
  revised edition published as The Lagoon and Other Stories 1961
• The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches 1963
• Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies 1963
• The Reservoir and Other Stories 1966
• The Pocket Mirror (poems) 1967
• Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun (juvenile) illustrations by Robin Jacques 1969
• You Are Now Entering the Human Heart 1983
• The Janet Frame Reader edited by Carole Ferrier 1995

Works about Janet Frame at Christchurch City Libraries